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...HOLLYWOOD PLAY The only studio to make a real splash on the Web, Disney has recast Infoseek as the Go Network, hoping to give its new portal some Tinseltown glamour...
...film Living Out Loud, is now set to be the host of a TV talk show. And the former Fresh Prince, Will Smith, has become one of the most in-demand actors around. Ice Cube--who performed a song with Public Enemy titled Burn Hollywood Burn in 1990--says Tinseltown wants rapper actors because "we add a sense of realism where sometimes a trained actor can't deliver that reality the way it needs to be done...
...John Wayne of the automobile business was down and out in, of all places, Beverly Hills--a carman in Tinseltown, hounded by lawyers and, perhaps worse, enjoined from talking publicly about his problems with either Chrysler or his ex-wife. "You never want to retire, move to a foreign country [California] and get divorced at the same time," advises Iacocca now. "That'll kill...
...Heston can preach traditional values from his Beverly Hills perch, it is because he is seen as one of the rare Tinseltown practitioners. Raised in rural Michigan, he has fond memories of roaming the woods with his .22-cal. rifle (and unhappy ones of his parents' broken marriage). He studied drama at Northwestern University, where he met his wife, Lydia Clarke, an actress and photographer. They have been married for 54 years and remain close to their two grown children. As for his six-year-old grandson Jack, who lives close by, Heston's macho stance melts, and he turns...
DIED. ALICE FAYE, 86, one of Hollywood's biggest late '30s and early '40s movie box-office draws; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Faye starred in Tinseltown's popular and lucrative cookie-cutter musicals and, with her distinctive contralto, introduced several songs that became pop standards, notably You'll Never Know in Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943). She was one of Irving Berlin's favorite singers. In 1945 she left her film career after Betty Grable supplanted her as Hollywood's favorite musical-comedy actress...